It is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when discussing the population of a place. For example, "This city has population of 500,000 people."
The Census Bureau's American FactFinder page (factfinder.census.gov) has population, housing, economic and geographical data.
Bangka has population of over a million and tin mining is a major source of revenue.
Lebanon, which has population of 4 million, is hosting 1.1 million Syrian refugees in internal tented settlements.
Why has population grown so rapidly in Texas and slowly elsewhere?
The low projection, which assumes that the world will quickly move below replacement-level fertility, has population peaking at 8 billion in 2042 and then declining.
Buenos Aires proper has population of about four mil lion, but at least four million more many of them slum‐dwel lers, live on the outskirts.
This suggested that H. glycines has population-specific gene expression signatures.
The WARDA has population-based information on birth defects for all children born in WA since 1980 [ 18].
Ontario has population-based coverage for eligible physician, laboratory, diagnostic imaging and hospital services through the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.
Why has population-based survival for colorectal cancer been so much higher in the USA than in Europe?
We identified cases of gastric cancer from the Lithuanian Cancer Registry, which has population-based information available since 1978.
